PARENT RIGHTS VERSUS PUBLIC SCHOOL CONTROL
PARENT RIGHTS VERSUS PUBLIC SCHOOL CONTROL
By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist
On October 31, 2019, the Houston ISD, Independent School
District, unanimously passed radical sex education for 3rd through 8th
grade students. Most parents voiced their emphatic religious and cultural
objections to the plan. Yet there was not one board member who voted against
this sex education agenda. It openly demonstrates the will of the parents was
insignificant as compared to the power of the educational establishment.
Parents have in effect been ousted from the primary right and responsibility to
teach their children moral values.
In 2014 the Austin ISD board rejected a sex education
proposal. The parents fought to adopt an “abstinence-only” birth control
policy. Over the next years the school board internal politics changed to
support and assist the expanding acceptance of LGBTQ students in the school
environment. This progressive policy was not only for school approval but also overall
cultural change. This reversal was coming from the top of the bureaucracy, not
from the grass roots. The public school is dedicating itself to be a societal
change agent not educating academic skills and rational thought.
They have passed this new sex education curriculum, which is
an affront to biblical teachings in Christianity, Judaism, Islam and anyone who
has studied mental health issues. Just because the person “feels” a certain way
does not make it real. Just because an individual “feels” like a lizard, it
does not make him one. A young adolescent going through hormonal and sexual
changes is often confused making them think they are different than their birth
gender. One’s feelings that are
the opposite of reality until very recently were an indication of insanity. Changing
reality to increase the acceptance of disturbed youths instead of treating them
contributes to their insanity.
The Houston Independent School District teaching anal sex
through a pornographic film has no legitimate justification for this biblically
perverted act. Teaching an underage person how to role-play to hide their deviant
lesbian relationship with a 17-year-old seducer from their parents is inappropriate
for a school. This is undermining parental authority for the purpose of
promoting a radical sexual agenda.
Government schools have no right to even consider teaching
this kind of information to children. The shrewd way the education elite bureaucrats
have gotten around parental objections is by saying they can opt out of the
curriculum.
Parents are not sending their children to school to be
indoctrinated in progressive sexual behaviors that alter traditional societal
moral norms. These educators knowingly or not are ushering in a Sodom and
Gomorra-like chaotic world. This focus on self-gratifying sexual activities
will weaken and obliterate the industrious fiber of the nation. It will lead us down the path of internal
moral decay. Eventually we will have to surrender to a totalitarian government
without the support and assistance coming from strong family loyalties.
Public schools were established to educate children to
become literate citizens. The education was to give them the ability to develop
reading, writing and math skills to be able to learn on their own. It was not supposed to brainwash them to
adopt self-destructive moral values. All non-academic learning was left to the
parents. They made the choices to develop the child’s character. The freedom of
parents to be responsible for their children, not the state has been effective
in molding strong, productive and law-abiding citizens. Ever since the
government has interfered with the sanctity of the family, our societal
problems have increased.
Moral, value, spiritual, nutritional, and physical
development of our children should be left to the family. Our government
schools have done a pathetic job even teaching students simple reading, writing
and math. Parents should not allow government education to destroy the moral
character of their children by presenting age inappropriate ideas, socially
inaccurate information to our youngsters. This is simple indoctrination.
Government schools are dysfunctional and should be stopped
from poorly performing the services that used to be done by the family. They
should be held to higher academic standards and leave moral values to the
church and the family.
Local public schools should be removed from the state
bureaucrats and returned to the local community. The number of state
educational bureaucrats should be reduced significantly, and schools
decentralized for more parental control. The parents will have a strong impact
on every facet of the school that will reflect their wishes and needs.
Let us rid our public schools of socially radical elites
whose purpose is to undermine and transform our country into a weak, immoral
one that collapses from within. Parents’ strong voice will strengthen and save our
children and our nation from evil forces.
Domenick Maglio, PhD.
is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and
owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is
an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN and a new book
entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING in a PC World. You can see many of Dr.
Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.
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